Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Preyssac-d'Agonac
Château-l'Evêque, Dordogne, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- L'église en totalité (cad. E 994) : classement par arrêté du 28 novembre 2003
- Protection dates
- 2003/11/28 : classé MH
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Later work
- 14e siècle, 16e siècle, 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Commune
- Château-l'Evêque
- Département
- Dordogne
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.26048, 0.70414
- Mérimée reference
- PA00082485
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1693 map "Governo Generale della Guienna" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise romane édifiée à partir du 12ème siècle, et dont le couvrement témoigne du passage de la voûte en berceau aux files de coupoles. Façade occidentale saintongeaise. Chapelle méridionale gothique. Dégâts subis au cours de la guerre de Cent ans et des guerres de Religion. Edifice désaffecté depuis 1958.
English translation
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History
Romanesque church built from the 12th century onwards, and whose covering testifies to the transition from barrel vault to rows of domes. Saintonge western facade. Gothic southern chapel. Damage sustained during the Hundred Years War and the Wars of Religion. Building disused since 1958.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.